"Cinema Trance And Cybernetics

We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories which she shows developed techniques for testing measuring and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema one that allows us to see the links among cinema anthropology psychology and cybernetics. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories which she shows developed techniques for testing measuring and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema. |Cinema Trance and Cybernetics